If it continues how long will it be before Moshiri changes his mind? Will he allow Koeman to stick it out and accept a low league finish. It baffles me this it really does. I have a feeling Kenwright would be putting Koeman on notice, but as Koeman was Moshiris choice he does t want to look a fool by sacking him half way through his contract. If we still around 13th or lower around Christmas, surely he has to go? But even then I have a feeling Moshiri will keep him no matter what.

To be fair this is my argument for him, he made it quite clear we needed a striker and the board didn't deliver.

Sorry but anyone coming in with this squad isn't going to magically get us scoring a hatfull of goals, we don't have the players.shiri

That being said, the only thing I can't defend is the total lack of ideas we have to even create the chances we don't have the strikers to score...

Technically that didnt happen, Koemans choices 1 and 2 didnt want to come to us, choices 3-5 Koeman didnt want.. Walsh found him strikers, but Koeman didnt want them, then Moshiri came out with, we dont need any more strikers.

I dont know about the CB/LB situation, as nothing was ever mentioned in an interview as to why we didnt buy one..

Koeman revealed that he thought he had secured his ‘option one’ frontman – understood to be Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud – earlier in the summer, only to see the deal fall through.Koeman said: “I cannot explain why (we didn’t sign a striker). I thought we had our option one in, and I was really disappointed by that.

"You need to understand that you can have option two, option three...and the right price for the right player is something we need to look at as well. Sometimes if you are interested in a player, then you know what they ask for that player is ridiculous.

“To get the first option as a striker in this team would have made the team stronger. Normally, that would have been easier.”

Wish people stop blaming the lack of strikers., ~Koeman chose not to buy other strikers for whatever reason.

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Technically that didnt happen, Koemans choices 1 and 2 didnt want to come to us, choices 3-5 Koeman didnt want.. Walsh found him strikers, but Koeman didnt want them, then Moshiri came out with, we dont need any more strikers.

I dont know about the CB/LB situation, as nothing was ever mentioned in an interview as to why we didnt buy one..

Koeman revealed that he thought he had secured his "option one' frontman – understood to be Arsenal's Olivier Giroud – earlier in the summer, only to see the deal fall through.Koeman said: "I cannot explain why (we didn't sign a striker). I thought we had our option one in, and I was really disappointed by that.

"You need to understand that you can have option two, option three...and the right price for the right player is something we need to look at as well. Sometimes if you are interested in a player, then you know what they ask for that player is ridiculous.

"To get the first option as a striker in this team would have made the team stronger. Normally, that would have been easier.”

Wish people stop blaming the lack of strikers., ~Koeman chose not to buy other strikers for whatever reason.

Then it's still as much the board and Walsh's fault as it is Koemans.

Deals fall through, can accept that, but if Koeman didn't like option 2 or 3 then they needed to give him option 4 and 5, that's what he was brought in for.

Fact remains we knew Lukaku was leaving in March, they had 4 months minimum to secure a striker, not throw all their eggs in a Giroud shaped basket.

Deals fall through, can accept that, but if Koeman didn't like option 2 or 3 then they needed to give him option 4 and 5, that's what he was brought in for.

Fact remains we knew Lukaku was leaving in March, they had 4 months minimum to secure a striker, not throw all their eggs in a Giroud shaped basket.

I just can't understand why Koeman thought Giroud would help us move up the table in the first place. He's an ageing super-sub for a team which finished one place above us. It seems negligent to have that as our first choice. But perfectly in line with his comment that our aim was to finish "same as last year".